Spaceland is Live! — The next major release of Virtual Earth is out the door and flowing to our production app server cluster. It should be live as you read this, but if you try it out and it appears to be the previous version wait a minute or 2 and refresh your browser to load the latest.

Live Local In 3-D — Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the "urban core" of 15 U.S. cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix …

Microsoft mapping goes 3D — Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new, downloadable browser application that brings the photorealism and maneuverability of gaming into its online mapping and local search service. — In Virtual Earth 3D, which is part of Microsoft's Live Search, users can "fly" …

2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden — 2007 Office system released to manufacturers; the company looks ahead to worldwide business availability. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).

Wikipedia used to spread malicious code — A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. — The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm …

Beginner's Guide to Digg — If you have ever felt like you had to dig around the Internet for good content, you might want to look at something called Digg (digg.com). Digg is a site that will help you avoid the process of digging and instead, get exactly what others have dug …

NTP slaps Palm with patent infringement suit — NTP, the company behind the epic patent infringement lawsuit against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, is now going after Palm. — In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services …

YouTube is Time's Invention of the Year — Everyone has been surprised with YouTube's near-exponential growth since its launch in February 2005. Now Time Magazine is recognizing that success, naming YouTube their "Invention of the Year". The phenomenon that gave birth to lonelygirl15 …

Jeremiah headed to Podtech! — This is a bittersweet post, it's also a bit awkward as I'm traveling on vacation right now through Asia. I'm currently in Hong Kong but have some important news to share... Deployed Social Media — Over the last year, I've been very thankful …

Interview with Adam Lasnik of Google — Spotlight on Search - Interview with Google's Adam Lasnik — One of the fun things about being involved with the search marketing industry is getting to meet really bright and interesting people. Whether they are long time SEO gurus …

8 killer Windows Media Center plug-ins — Just as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (MCE). — For the uninitiated, MCE provides DVR and other multimedia features wrapped in an attractive 10-foot interface.

More Vloggies Vids . . . Everybody and I mean everybody was packing a video camera at the Vloggies on Saturday night. Irina Slutsky, co-host and the prime organizer of the event, started off by telling people that "No videoing was allowed." It brought the house down.

CBS stages open call for tech entrepreneurs — Veteran dealmaker Quincy Smith has joined CBS Corp. as president of CBS Interactive. Reuters caught up with the 35-year-old executive, who returns to an operations role after spending the last few years negotiating deals at media …